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What's in your ref's bag?
[For this item, please ignore guidelines on what we should or should not do as a match official and any possible insurance and equipment ownership issues.]
Last year I attended a match as a spectator and hence I did not have my referees
match bag with me.
For this particular triangular fixture, the home team had forgotten to bring a set of score sheets, once this was known, someone was dispatched to collect
one but they would not make it back in-time for the start of the first match. Personally I was surprised
to find that none of the appointed referees had, or had even considered carried a spare score
sheet?
I and several other ref's I know, always carry spare score sheets in our ref's
bag,
I recall being advised to on my EVA ref
course (back in the 80’s).
Since this incident, I have been asking referees (from Local, Regional &
National matches) the following question: What do you carry in your ref's bag?
Items carried by most referees I have asked:
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Whistle, Spare Whistle, Cards, Pressure Gauge, Ball Pump, Pens, FIVB Rule Book,
Hand Book,
Referees Guidelines, Rotation Slips, Net Height Measure.
Additional items carried by a few (and why):
- Spare score sheets.
- BUCS rules and score sheet (BUCS teams don’t always know the match
rules).
- Regional and Local league rules etc as required.
- White insulation tape (for fixing antenna sleeves in position).
- Marking pens (can be used to quickly make a scoreboard from A5 flyers, obtained from
reception).
- Scissors.
- Small screwdriver set (for cleaning out floor bolt holes).
- Old towel (floor mopping).
- Roll of finger tape (players always seen to ask you for some).
- Plasters (players always seen to ask you for some).
- Delays in the Game document
- FIVB Case book.
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Items carried by Ref’s who like to get involved:
- Line flags (for the use off)
- Match ball (teams don’t always have a match ball)
- Small floor sucker (for removing post bolt covers, school sport halls often have these locked away at weekends)
- First Aid box & chemical ice packs.
Useful
items from
your Car Tool Kit
- Adjustable spanners (for floor bolts and jammed height adjustment bars on several types of post systems)
- Bag of cable ties (always useful).
- Cutters
Miscellaneous
Replacement net tension handle locking nuts and bolts for SportSet post systems [M6 20mm grade 8.8 tensile
strength]. (A safety issue, often incorrectly replaced or fitted by club or sports centre staff with anything they can find from the local DIY
shop, cost 8p each, donated to the post owners for installation). |
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This is the list of items I have collected so far, I’m sure it’s not complete, the question is: What useful items do you carry in your match bag, and why, please let us know….
Dave Reece Dave.Reece@VolleyballNewsletter.com
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